Job 29
1 And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: —
And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
2 Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God's preserving me?
Who? will he give me like months of long ago like [the] days [when] God he watched over me.
3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
4 As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.
Just as I was in [the] days of prime my in [the] intimacy of God on tent my.
5 When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me — my young ones,
While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
6 When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me rivulets of oil.
When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
7 When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
When went out I [the] gate on [the] town in the public square I prepared seat my.
8 Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen — they stood up.
They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
9 Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.
Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
10 The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.
[the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
11 For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth [to] me.
For an ear it heard and it called blessed me and an eye it saw and it bore witness to me.
12 For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
That I rescued [the] afflicted [who] cried for help and [the] fatherless and [the one whom] not a helper [belonged] to him.
13 The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.
[the] blessing of [one] about to perish On me it came and [the] heart of a widow I made sing for joy.
14 Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
15 Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.
Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
16 A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
[was] a father I to the needy [people] and a case at law of [the one whom] not I knew I investigated it.
17 And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
18 And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
19 My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.
Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
20 My honour [is] fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.
Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
21 To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.
To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
22 After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,
After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
23 And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide [As] for the latter rain.
And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
24 I laugh unto them — they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.
I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
25 I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.
I chose way their so I may sit [as] chief so I may dwell like a king among the troop[s] just as mourners someone comforts.
